Shim Eun-kyung returns to the big screen in body-swap comedy

Okay, this movie sounds adorable. Rising young actress Shim Eun-kyung (Sunny) has picked her next project, and it’s a movie in which she plays a grandma who gets zapped back into her teenage body… and then joins a rock band. Why? I dunno. But coolest granny ever.

The movie, called Suspicious Girl, is the next project from the director of The Crucible (talk about varying your genres, though I can certainly understand wanting to direct a light comedy after such a heavy project). It stars Shim Eun-kyung as a grandma who wakes up one day in her younger body, which you figure is actually a body-swap AND time-traveling genre mashup, what with the generation gap. We’ve certainly had a lot of each kind in dramaland over the past year, but a twofer could be a fun twist.

It’s really the granny in the rock band that sells the premise, because it’s just crazy enough to be awesome. And Shim Eun-kyung is so great at quirky oddball characters. She’s even played a grandma who regained her youth while in heaven in Jun Jin’s Romantic Heaven, so the granny act isn’t even a stretch.

I hope they do a romance too, because not only will watching granny get herself a flower boy rocker be hilarious, but I think there’s be a great bittersweet story to be told there. Now that’s a noona romance that I could get behind.

Suspicious Girl is still casting and plans to release later this year.

April 19, 2013 at 2:28 PM

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Yessss!!! I lub her....i guess this means she's back from schooling in the US....and she was great playing Grandma in Romantic Heaven, she was hilarious in her scenes with Kim Dong Wook and heartbreaking in her story with Kim Mu Yeol's character

April 23, 2013 at 2:07 PM

April 19, 2013 at 2:38 PM

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oh, the premise sounds amazing!! but i can already feel the lump in my throat coming on. as you said, this is potentially crazy hilarious stuff, but the bittersweet streak is inevitable.

i actually think this would be just as fun without the time traveling element (is that for sure?). if grandma woke up one day in her teenage body, but in HER present day. although i suppose if she's got family members, it could get sticky covering up her disappearance.

April 19, 2013 at 3:35 PM

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Wooowzzaaa!!! XD XD That would be interestingly awesome & I am veeery curious to watch this because of this young, lively actress! Plus, I am glad that she's returning from schooling in US...wooot wooot! However, I am sure that she might go back to Korea for summer break from US, of course.

April 19, 2013 at 3:44 PM

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YAY!! Shin Eun-kyung is one of those actress I've been keeping tabs on and I seriously missed her after Sunny. I could totally picture her owning the granny part and pulling it off with her own brand of charm. A love interest please!!

April 19, 2013 at 4:24 PM

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This sounds nice. I really like her as an actress. Korea has really fine young actors and a lot grow up to be wonderful, with proper guidance and good choice of works. Miss Shim looks like such a person. Can't wait to see her again.

April 19, 2013 at 6:55 PM

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What a great news! Has she finished her studies or perhaps, on a break? Sunny was simply lovely and she's awesome in Gwanghae as the palace food-taster. Her scenes with LBH were bittersweet yet adorable & heart-warming. Too bad she missed the movie's promos and such. But it's great indeed to see the talented young actress back on the big screen.

April 20, 2013 at 6:23 AM

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I wiki her lol yes I knew she was so familair she been the child version of the leading lady so often, nice to see her be THE leading lady. I remember her best from Sweet Buns, again as the leading lady child version, but each episode had a little mini play explaining how the two leads in the drama got to be such rivials, in many ways the best part of the drama..lol.
Seems she new gen korean actress to not scared to speak her mind when people try to do the dirty on her, the industry need more like that.

April 20, 2013 at 7:48 AM

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Since rock and roll was invented (and mastered far beyond the music of the same genre currently produced by present contemporary artists) by the today's grannie and grandpas, it is only fitting that one re-called into her youth should return to show the kids how it really goes. Much like the 50th year Rollling Stones tour will, no doubt, once again, prove... ;)

P.S. I too enjoyed her, and the actress (Yoo Ho-jeong) who played her adult role in the neo-classic 'Sunny'. A nice film and well worth re-watching. :)

April 20, 2013 at 10:34 AM

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I love her in Sunny! :D

Her character will probably be trying to reconnect with her grandson/grandaughter who are in the same rock band, ala Holy Daddy? ...probably not.

I hope it will be about how a grandma being given a chance to do all those things she didn't get to do when she was young. I can already imagine all those hilarious situations due to the age/ generations gap.

April 20, 2013 at 3:48 PM

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Sounds great and i just love Shim Eun-kyung. GF, i really hope you review this movie, cause where i am korean movies is a far cry from the farm. We don't much of it here but with your reviews i can at least know what happens and get a kick out of it, just saying. Please help me out, kamsamnida.